Bloomberg European banks probably failed to live up to US peers’ record fourth-quarter profits as they set aside more money for troubled loans and missed out on the rally in equities trading. Ten of Europe’s biggest lenders probably set aside $15 billion for doubtful credit in the fourth quarter, taking the year’s total to $61.5 billion, the highest since 2012, ...

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Noel Quinn is set to appear before the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee to answer questions over the lender’s moves to freeze accounts of activists in Hong Kong, according to an exiled lawmaker. Quinn is listed as a participant, along with Colin Bell, the bank’s chief compliance officer, at private and public ...

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer (CEO) James Gorman leaped past JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon as the best-paid CEO of a major US bank. Morgan Stanley boosted Gorman’s pay 22% to $33 million for 2020, when the Wall Street bank posted its third consecutive year of record earnings. His pay includes $1.5 million in salary and a $7.88 ...